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More than 3,500 current and former workers at Next have won the final stage of a six-year legal battle for equal pay.
An employment tribunal said store staff should not have been paid at lower rates than employees in warehouses.
Lawyers for the shop staff described the judgement as "hugely significant" and the amount of back-pay owed could amount to more than 30m.
Next argued that pay rates for warehouse workers were higher than for retail workers in the wider labour market, justifying the different rates at the company.
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